Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest point of concern in Washington was what would develop in NATO. The British White Paper came on the day that General Lauris Norstad and his top aides were observing NATO's eighth anniversary, and the question that immediately presented itself was: Will the British decision start a chain reaction for reduction of forces among the other NATO allies, e.g., France and Italy? In the new distribution of power, there would be a new and different premium on the West German ground forces, whose General Hans Speidel has just taken over as Norstad's commander of allied land...
Britain's reduction of troops will weaken the numerical strength of the SHAPE troops under General Lauris Norstad, but it does not affect what is the really solid strength of NATO: the commitment by 15 nations, backed by U.S. nuclear power, to regard an attack upon one as an attack upon all. Europe's confidence in that commitment remained strong and sure-as testified by the resolute calm with which Denmark and Norway fortnight ago, and The Netherlands last week, met Bulganin's dark threats of H-bombs...
...Selected as Army Vice Chief of Staff: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 57, replacing General Williston Palmer, who will go to Europe to be deputy U.S. commander in chief under NATO Commander Lauris J. Norstad. Paratrooper Lemnitzer succeeded General Maxwell Taylor as Far East Ground Commander and chief of the U.S. Far East Command, is an odds-on favorite to follow him as Chief of Staff...
NATO's Norstad was not surprised by the long-expected British cutback, but he was nonetheless pained. In secret talks that preceded last week's announcement, Airman Norstad was concerned by the widespread tendency to say that ground troops no longer matter, since they can be compensated for by more technological weapons. If the British reason for reduction in force is economic, he pleaded, they owe it to their partners to say so. This the British did. This explanation, Norstad hoped, would not give other NATO nations an excuse to follow suit, since all of them except...
After the British cuts, Norstad will have fewer than 15 divisions in his command-though the French have promised to restore to the NATO shield "as soon as possible" two divisions withdrawn last year for service in North Africa...